MEXICO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 13 January 1916, Page 5

MEXICO

MURDER OF EIGHTEEN AMERT'CANS. :,-:■■ PUNISHMENT DEMANDED BY ?. UNTIED STATES. .. ( Puess Association . —Cops hi qhi.) (Rec. Jan. 13, noon.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Following oil the murder of eighteen Americans, shot by the ■follower's" of the Mexican bandit Villa, the United States Senate in considering intervention _ to prevent tho export of arms "to Mexico, in conjunction.- with South Amciic.m countries. .

Mr Lansing has telegraphed to the do facto Government of Mexico demanding the punishment of the bandits.

The Otago officers of the Lands Department have their hands pretty full at present, eays the Dimedin "Star."' Their first point of 'contact with the land-hungerers will "bo made nextv month, when the 16,000 acres of the Puketoi Run, lately held by Mr Watson Shennan, six miles from Ranfurly, will be open for selection . 'This property is subdivided into eight parts. One'is taken up, the other seven are to he offered on a day to be fixed Iby the authorities in Wellington. Another job that' is ocupying the field staff is the surveying of the Galloway runs. This work is well in hand. The office men. are' preparing the plans of the - * Benmore Estate, consisting of about 300,000 acres. This is a pretty big thing, and will probably attract widespread, interest • It is oh this run that 23,000 acres have teen reserved for returned soldiers .

It required a, considerable amount of confidence a few yeai*s ago, says a writer in the "Auckland Herald," to prophesy that any pumice country would ever be profitably turned into farm land, and yet in wonderfully* short time,, in spite. of severe." legislative and financial handicaps, hundreds of farms have already been established in pumice country .iTJjey ean be seen aiid examined- by/anyone, and when they are examined it will be found that, instead of being an cxpfftsivc and difficult matter to make this, class of soil .productive, it is' simple. Clovers and turnips, as I.said some years agp are the factors that will transform tln s class ol' country.'' Clovers and turnips, the easiest and cheapest and most profitable crops man can raise in „this stock-rearing country, are - easier and cheaper to "raise ih the pumice country than anywhere else; and with those 'crops, man- instead r£ impoverishing the soil, can enrich, it., "* . '

When a Chinaman named Wong Hop appeared -Ibefoie Mr E. Rawson, S.M., .it Hamilton to-day (leports the •'Auckland Stir"' of Mond.-vy last), chaiged with woikmsr at his calling by digging v*ta toes -within sight of a -puttie road on a recent Sunday, his Woiship renvuked that the statute nndei -which the pio<-e----eution was laid was somewhat lidieulous. It apparently did not matter if a man winked jon Sunday within sight of a public road *o long as he was not. following 1m usual \vock-da3 occupation. He co'uld not understand peonle complaining, as thev had .Tppaiently done 111 this 1 <\ise, of a man digging potatoes on tho Sabbath rt usually happened that Chinamen wei'o victnhb of' chai'ges of this- dosciiptJon , However, he must administer tho law as h 6 fouirfl It. Detetidant w.is convicted and oidered to pa\ the <.oj-ts. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. A LONDON LAJDY ORDERS JRURMA. ''Will 7y T ou please send me via Fiibco or Vancomer your Rusjna for lemoval of supeifiuons ,hau\ It* has been lccommcnJed me by Miss D. —, I've tiied some of heis and 'find it excellent." All the way'fiom London came th.H oidei —fiom Miss S. E , West Cromwell Road, E.ules'Courb, the Oiig\nal letter is" in my possession. And neither in tiOhdon nor New'Zealand-Jean ray lcgis-te'-ed Rusm.i mqthod be equalled for iemoving supeifluuus„ hau The "haw disappears after tho fust tieatment and e\entually is lulled nltogetbei. ,Unhkc Electrolysis, Rusnia is painless, and a permanent cure is guaranteed, Rusma will rid YOU of those Jiairs—wiite to me NOW ! Mis Hullen, Beauty PpennlM Eoulcott sheet,"" Wellington, Dept. 9. ' "